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>But we all know you won't. You'll buy this MacBook sooner or later Try me.

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That's... oddly neutral, yet slightly discouraging. Still... if you were building a web application today, would you consider using PHP, a "flawed language"?

Hello Andrea... May I ask a question? You're quite critical of PHP, and often claim it's bad and flawed. And yet you're a core contributor, are you not? Well... what are your sugge…

>I just don't think anyone is really interested in doing so. Most PHP users don't care much They care. They are interested. But backwards compatibility is a huge issue. PHP7 is muc…

PHP is too easy to get started with and is too popular. You can even use WYSIWYG tools to create a website, and then proceed to insert small, poorly written PHP scripts in it. Try …

>PHP isn't quick. As of PHP7... it actually is quicker than other languages in it's domain.

My first language was Pascal. The concept of combining strings and integers in PHP without any conversion was scary and magical to me at first, but the damn thing worked, as long a…

PHP also has IDEs, tons of tools, tests, and gets deployed with many services and scripts. It's an inconsistent language, it's used by newbies in a very bad manner without even und…

Could we not? That thing was parroted a thousand times already and it really boils down to a personal rant about tons of legacy features rather than a properly worded criticism of …

It maybe is... but not if you aren't Swiss.

>Hell, now there are people talking about a basic income for doing nothing Yes, there are. And you know why? Because jobs are being more automated as we speak. What will people do?…

HHVM is not a compiler that it used to be with Facebook, it compiles PHP and Hack into JIT bytecode now. PHP has opcache, which speeds it up quite nicely, and PHP7 has great perfor…